This International Women’s Day, celebrate Henrietta Leavitt, who took us beyond the stars and into the galaxies. “Her will tells nearly all. She left an estate worth $314.91, mostly in […]

Tiny houses have become quite trendy across the web. Design specs and photos have been shared across a number of blogs and social networks, but are these micro-houses becoming the new American Dream?

IBM's Serious Game program wants to give enterprises a way to digest data by playing them out in real-world simulations, or video games.

What your primary activities are at prime hours of concentration can tell you a lot about yourself. 

More gender parity in the workplace means more economic gain for everyone, ample time for men to be fathers, and it turns women on in the bedroom.

Those who have spent extended amounts of time testing Apple's new Watch find that it shifts the way they use their iPhones.

Jane Hsu, principal of P.S. 116 in New York City, cites research that suggests students up until fifth grade would benefit more from playing and spending time with family. 

Remember to set your clocks tonight if you live somewhere that observes daylight saving time. In the meantime, we can question why so much of the world sticks with outdated Imperial Time. 

Swiss researchers, operating with the knowledge that kids learn better when able to teach their skills to other pupils, have developed a robot student to assist with lessons in penmanship.

Einstein’s most famous equation works out more neatly than you’d expect. “It followed from the special theory of relativity that mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the […]

On a wide range of contentious issues, academics and researchers publish work that pretends to offer objective evidence, but which on closer inspection turns out to be advocacy masquerading behind intellectualisms, scientific methodology, footnotes and citations, and erudite language. A recent example is a paper by Nassim Nicholas Taleb and colleagues arguing that genetically modified foods pose such a risk to life on Earth that agricultural biotechnology should be banned under a strict application of the Precautionary Principle.

The 114-year-old liberal arts women's college in Virginia announced this week that it will close this summer despite having $86 million in its endowment.

Author Eric Schlosser discusses what he's learned after writing, publishing, and touring for his book on the illusion of safety associated with nuclear weapons.

Our tolerance for slowpokes has declined over the past few decades.

Two psychologists and a composer have created music specially configured to arouse interest in cats. You can listen to the experiments, called Cat Ballads and Kitty Ditties.

In a study of 130,000 American adults, including 19,299 psychedelics users, researchers failed to find evidence that taking psychotropic substances results in serious mental health problems. 

New York neuroticism is the obverse of Kantian tranquility: harried, unsatisfied, anxious, perturbed. A life filled with worry and noise rather than one steeped in calm and virtue. But is this necessarily a bad thing? 

Many people, including a majority of school teachers, harbor important false beliefs about the brain. Are you one of them?

A disease still in the initial stages of investigation causes some individuals to literally get drunk from eating normal amounts of carbohydrates. 

The Facebook CEO says he won't hire anyone to work directly below him unless he'd feel comfortable if roles were reversed. It's a simple way of saying, "Hire team players who share your values."